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Saturday, 7 April 2012

Chanel Jacket - P's journey (test jacket continued) - 4

Today I managed to get some more work done on my Chanel jacket.

I looked in my stash and couldn't find any trim that would match the fabric well enough so dashed to my local market to see what I could find. The only colour was white, which I thought was too harsh against the autumn colours of the jacket so decided to dye it in some tea.

The picture above is just my test sample, but I was pleased enough with it to pop all of the trim in the tea for an hour or so. I rinsed the trim out in some hot water a couple of times and then hung it on the line to dry.

Meanwhile I got on with interfacing each jacket piece. I used some interfacing similar to the perfect fuse lite to give enough support to the jacket to stop it getting pushed out of shape.

I found some nice beige lining which I cut out to line the jacket, for the back piece I decided to omit the back seam and then stitched the first row of quilting stitches down the back seam.

Using my guide that came with the Bernina walking foot, I worked from the centre out stitching 1" apart.

Here you can take a preview of what the jacket back will look like after the quilting.

And here is the jacket from the front.

This is probably as far as I will get with the jacket today because we have my D Mike's sister's 50th birthday party to go today, but I feel I have made good progress.

While I was out this morning I found some trim that goes with my Linton Tweed perfectly, so that was a real result.